Join us this issue for stories of characters squaring up against things they cannot hope to control, snails turning into messiahs, and webcomics triggering apocalypses.
The Aftermath
I land in my dream, prepared to be utterly bored. I stare out the kitchen window, my hands absentmindedly soaping up a plate.
Read More →The Girl Who Borrowed Tomorrows
My mother began misplacing days before she began misplacing names.
Read More →The Casting
Afterwards, and contrarily, it was the tawny owl matriarch who gave the definitive history of the miraculous year.
Read More →The Shape of Time
What’s worse— Safeguard Yug wondered —death or posthumous humiliation?
Read More →Dimensional Diaries: A Quarterly Spring Roundup of South Asian Speculative Fiction
Salam and welcome to the fifth issue of Dimensional Diaries, the first of this year.
Read More →Braving The Horror: A Conversation With Usman T. Malik
In November 2025, Tasavvur Community & Outreach Manager Maliha Rao and Non-fiction Editor Mushba Said sat down with Pakistani author, Usman T. Malik.
Read More →I land in my dream, prepared to be utterly bored. I stare out the kitchen window, my hands absentmindedly soaping up a plate.
Read more →My mother began misplacing days before she began misplacing names.
Read more →Afterwards, and contrarily, it was the tawny owl matriarch who gave the definitive history of the miraculous year.
Read more →What’s worse— Safeguard Yug wondered —death or posthumous humiliation?
Read more →Speculative short stories, novellas and books, published by South-Asian authors, from January to March 2026.
Read more →In November 2025, Tasavvur Community & Outreach Manager Maliha Rao and Non-fiction Editor Mushba Said sat down with Pakistani author, Usman T. Malik.
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About Tasavvur
Tasavvur, which literally means Imagination in Urdu/ Hindi, aims to provide a warm and cozy space for imaginative short stories
About Tasavvur
Tasavvur, which literally means Imagination in Urdu/ Hindi, aims to provide a warm and cozy space for imaginative short stories
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